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To history students of a certain bent, there’s nothing more fascinating than the idea of being a fly on the wall for history’s great mistakes. Any square can daydream about witnessing John Hancock sign his John Hancock, but what about lurking in the meeting that resulted in the Maginot Line?Continue Reading

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Under the watchful gaze of security guards, dozens of people streamed through metal detectors to enter Temple Israel one evening this month for a town hall meeting on hate crimes and domestic terrorism. The cavernous synagogue outside of Detroit, one of several houses ofContinue Reading

NYC Council Passes Resolution Endorsing Fair Pay in Streaming

Today the NYC Council voted to pass Resolution 368, which calls for fair pay for artists in music streaming. The council also endorsed the passage of the Living Wage for Musicians Act introduced in the U.S. Congress in 2src24. “I’m thrilled the New York City Council has passed my Resolution 368 today…Continue Reading

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Demand Progress commissioned a national poll of 1,200 registered voters to test the resonance of the “abundance agenda” being promoted as a potential policy and political refocus for the Democratic party. The objective of the poll was to compare support for abundance arguments to a prominent competing framework: populist argumentsContinue Reading

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US envoy Thomas Barrack praises interim government in Damascus, calls for ‘dialogue’ between Israel and Syria., US envoy Thomas Barrack praises interim government in Damascus, calls for ‘dialogue’ between Israel and Syria. The United States envoy to Syria says the conflict between Israel and Syria is “solvable” as he visitedContinue Reading